Uploaded April 2013 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
On a bitterly cold Easter Saturday I wander round some of the trees in the section of our orchard we call Bunyards. A block of predominantly Bramleys originally planted in 1992/3 has been reduced by 50% by removing alternate rows, and the remaining trees grafted over to cider varieties. This is a work in progress. The reason for the change is we couldn't sell our Bramleys and also wanted to reduce our workload (being 20 years older than when we started the orchard) . The choice of cider varieties was made in conjunction with our friend Jez Howard of 146 cider company who takes all our surplus fruit for his award winning cider. I also comment on a few pruning/tree chape problems and demonstrate solutions.
On a bitterly cold Easter Saturday I wander round some of the trees in the section of our orchard we call Bunyards. A block of predominantly Bramleys originally planted in 1992/3 has been reduced by 50% by removing alternate rows, and the remaining trees grafted over to cider varieties. This is a work in progress. The reason for the change is we couldn't sell our Bramleys and also wanted to reduce our workload (being 20 years older than when we started the orchard) . The choice of cider varieties was made in conjunction with our friend Jez Howard of 146 cider company who takes all our surplus fruit for his award winning cider. I also comment on a few pruning/tree chape problems and demonstrate solutions.
